Filing box or drawer.



No. 809,976. PATBNTED JAN.16, 1906. R. H. BER.

FILING BOX OR DRAWER.

APPLXGATION FILED JUNE 9,1903.

FILING. @@X DRAWER..

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Specification of Letters Patent.

atented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application tiled June 9,1905. Serial No. 160,697.

Garrettsville, inthe c unty of Portage and.

State of Ohio, have invented or discovered newand useful Improvements inFiling Boxes or Drawers, oi which the following is a specification.

I invention relates to filing boxes or dra. ers which may be enteredinto andwithdrawn from the pockets or holes oi iilingcabinets.

It is-the object of my invention to make a filing box or 'drawer whichwill not bind on the sides of the pockets, which may be adj usted tovarious lengths, which may be suspended on the cabinet when fullywithdrawn from its pocket, and which may have its parts quickly, easily,and cheaply constructed integrally with its iinger-pull and labelholder.

lther objects oi my invention will appear hereinafter inthe detaileddescription thereof.

In the drzmdngs which form a part of this specification, Figure I is aperspective of my invention with the rear portion thereof broken awayFig. II, a plan of a fragment of a sheet from which the iront of mytiling box or drawer is made, showing the lines on which the sheet iscut and folded to form the fingerpull and label rest or holder; Fig.III, a ragment oi'a cabinet in vertical section through a series ofpockets, together with the rear portion of ailing box ordre-wer, allillustrative oi the manner in which the boi: or drawer is held whenwithdrawn Vt'rorn its individual pocket, Fig. III, a plan oi a fragmentof a liling box or drawer, showing an adjustable means Vtor supportingthe forward or lower end the articles in the box or drawer; and Fig. avertical section ci a fragment of the tren of the bor; or drawer,showing a second torni which the label restor holder may assume.

"n the widtlrof the sides due to the et the iiled articles or otherwise.

ling-box that frictionally engage with the sides 12 of thefiling-cabinet, the other parts of the box being spaced therefromslightly. The rear upper part of the sides 2 are eut oil on inclines 8,as shown in Figs. I and III, and between the reduced rear ends of thesides is secured the back 5, which reaches nearly to the top edges ofthe sides and may entend entire-ly to the, top thereof, if desired. Tothe rear side of the baclris secured by riveting, soldering, orotherwise a strip of metal 9, having a hook l0, with its open mouthtoward the front and partially or wholly below the bottom 3. Thefiling-box slides-on the top oi the guides ll on the sides 12 (one onlyheing shown) of the cabinet. The hook l0. rides just above the bottoms 13 of the pockets, which are placed a little below the tops et the saidguides 1l to provide a wayl for the hook 10. This arrangement-oi1 thehook and the guide and the pocket-bottoms may be varied, however. Y

Below the top of the guides and near the front oi each pocket is a rod14 in the path of the hook 10, so that when the box is withdrawn thehook engages the rod. The box may then be swung down into the positionshown in Fig. III, the hook holding the box suspended in a position fromwhich papers may be taken or Into. which they may be placed and wherethe box is by merely raising its lower end ready to be returned to itspocket.

rIhe top 6 maycover as muon of they top of the box as desired; but Ihave shown it over only theviorward portion thereof, whore it serves tokeep the contents ol the box in place, especially when the box has beenswung down, as in Fig. III, or the box is full.

I may malte the sides of the box or drawer corrugated, as shown at 15 inFig. IV, or the corrugations may be on strips secured to the sides oithe box or drawer. Into opposite corrugations l5, which are Guides, Islide a gate or stop if? for the int end of the filed articles, so thatartisl of dillerent lengths can be accommodate in the various boxes inthe cabinet used. 'i ne gate or stop 16 also serves to divide the boxinto compartments for diifcrent articles. The rib 7 niay be used withthe corrugated sides, il desire The bor; is closed by the front 4,extending beyond the boxinembeis, to which it is at-' tached in anyconvenient manner. In this iront I provide a label rest or holder 17,which IOOV IIO

is integral with the front 4 and is made by making a cut on three sidesof a rectangle and bending back the cut portion on the lower uncut sideof the rectangle. The three cuts of the rectangle are shown by thenumerals 1.8, 19, and 2O on Fig. II and the place of bending by thedotted line 21. An arched cut 22 is made within the rectangle, the baseof the arched out being on the dotted line or near that line. rIhatpartv of the rectangle left at the sides of and above the arched cut isbent back beyond the inner side. of the front 4, as shown in Fig. l,where the bottom ofthe label-rest is inclined,or in Fig. V,where thelabel -rest is shown as a pronounced shoulder, (marked 23.) The tonguedor rounding part 24 of the .rectangle left within Jvfhe arched cut isbent forward on the dotted line 21 to form a curved handle orfinger-pull 25, by which the boX or drawer may be lifted on the hook orpulled out of its ocket. The bending of the ingerull 25 fldrward leavesthe opening 26, and t e bending back of the label-rest leaves an openingthrough which the label is read. v

The label showing the contents of the box is slipped in between the bodyof the front 4 and the rest 17 and is supported on the portion of therest 17 which connects it with the front 4. The label may be insertedfrom behind the top 6, as is clear, or through the eoaeve opening 27 inthe forward end of one of the sides 2, or said opening may be at theforside the boX and the latter a portion thereof bent within the box.

2. In a iling box or drawer front, a labelholder and a handle integralwith the front andconsisting of portions bent in opposite directionsfrom the body thereof, the portion containing the opening from which thehan- -dle is bent being bent to forni a label-holder.

31.- ln a boX or drawer, a front having a handle integral therewith anda label-holder integral therewith'and formed ot a single tongueextending each side of the handle.

In witness whereof I' hereunto subscribe my name this 5th day of June,1903.

' REUBENH. BER

In presence ofy y R. S. WEBB, n

W. E. AQLER.

